Is someone bullying you, hurting you, or doing something to you that you want to stop. You don't have to put up with it. You have a right to be safe from abuse. There are ways of getting support. Read more »
The Campus Board: training friend or foe of dedicated young climbers? What is the evidence? Read more »
Campus boards are great for strength training but can seriously damage your fingers if used inappropriately. Read more »
Children and adolescents are not mini-adults. Audry Morrison has some recommendations for monitoring the training of dedicated young climbers. Read more »
Audry Morrison (BSc, UIAA Medcom) takes a look at the culture of tight climbing shoes. Just how tight is too tight - and are we creating problems for the future? Read more »
Welcome to the BMC ‘Climbing in Schools’ page with advice and guidance for schools with roped climbing walls or low-level traversing walls. Here you will find information about how to safely get the most from a facility, how to increase the use of a facility and how to improve the quality of coaching and instruction. Read more »
The BMC hosted its second Climbing Injury Symposium on 10 & 11 November 2012 in Sheffield. Experts from different areas of the climbing, coaching, instructional and medical worlds came together for the biennial event to discuss how to identify, prevent and treat climbing injuries. Read more »
This weekend, while their older Team members were competing and achieving great things at an EYC in Moscow, some of the very youngest members of the GB Junior Climbing Team went to Imst in Austria to take part in a well known climbing festival. Here is their Team manager's report of that event. Read more »
The BMC has issued guidance on campus board use. Read more »
Audry Morrison (Westminster University) and Volker Schoffl (Bamberg, Germany) have published a paper in the British Journal of Sports Medicine reviewing the literature highlighting growth and development issues in young climbers. Read more »
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